Job 30:18
With great force he takes a grip of my clothing, pulling me by the neck of my coat.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
17The flesh is gone from my bones, and they give me no rest; there is no end to my pains.
19Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.
Cross References
Job 2:7And the Satan went out from before the Lord, and sent on Job an evil disease covering his skin from his feet to the top of his head.
Job 19:20My bones are joined to my skin, and I have got away with my flesh in my teeth.
Isaiah 1:5Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble.
Matthew Henry on Job 30:16-31
Job Complains of His Affliction. ( b. c. 1520.) 15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. 16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me. 17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. 18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. 19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. 20 I cry unto thee,… Read the whole commentary →